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ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. The Daily Press
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Notice is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corpora tion will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, No. 1, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 25th February 1939, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Re. port of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Ac counts for the year ending 31st December 1938.
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The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Monday the 13th February to Saturday the 25th February 1939 (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
"Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 6th Feb., 1939.
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THE STAR" FERRY
CO., LTD."
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY "GIVEN THAT THE FORTY. FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF THIS COM. PANY will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. on Friday, the 24th February, 1939, at 11.30a.m.
for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st Decem
with a
ber, 1938.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 17th February, 1939, to Friday, the 24th Febru. ary, 1939, both days inclusive. By order of the Board of Directors,
C. M. MANNERS,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 30th Jan., 1939.
THE HONGKONG
ELECTRIC CO.,
LIMITED.
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Notice is hereby given that the
Fiftieth Ordinary Yearly Meet.
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CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERY AT
TSUN WAN
Teaders are invited for the construction of Sections A. and C. of the above..
Particulars of the work are
obtainable from Mr. T. 0. Tso of Messrs. Tso & Hodgson, Office. Plans and Solicitors' specifications will be suppited on payment of deposit of $100.00. byť" must be returned within one week, when the deposit will be released."
Tenders to be sealed, marked
Tender for Sections A. & C., Chinese Permanent Cemetery, Tsun Wan”, and submitted and addressed to The Honourable The Secretary for Chinese Affairs at the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs on or before 31st. March, 1939.
The Principals reserve the right of accepting whichever tender as they think it and do not oblige themselves to accept
the lowest one. THE CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERY COMMITTEE.
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THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING CO., LIMITED (Incorporated in Queensland)
NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF FINAL DIVIDEND
NOTICE is hereby given that a Final Dividend of five pence,
plus bonus of two pence, making seven pence per share for the financial year ending 31st March, 1939, has been declared by the Directors of the Company in Brishane, payable on 15th March,
1939, to
Shareholders on the
Registers at Brisbane and Singa pore on 14th March, 1939.
NOTICE is also hereby given that the Singapore Transfer Re- be closed from gisters 'will Wednesday, 8th March, to Tues. day, 14th March, 1939, both days inclusive, for the preparation of
Dividend Warrants.
By Order of the Board,
DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,
Local Secretaries.
Hong Kong Bank Chambers, Singapore, 11th Feb., 1939.
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ing will be held at the Company's Forthcoming
Offices, P. & 0. Bullding, on
Thursday, 9th March, 1939, at
11 a.m. for the purpose of pre-
senting the Report of the Direc.
Weddings
tors together with a Statement oiriages are announced:
The following forthcoming mar- Accounts to 31st December, 1938, Mr. The Wing-fu, clerk, of No. 27 "and electing Directors and Audi Warren Street, first floor, Tathang, and Mis! Fung Mia-yung, steno-
hang Road;
tors.
The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from
grapher, residing at No. 26 Tad
Mr. Yeung Shiu-hong, merchant,
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HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 23, 1839.
PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEMS
Services and his asso- clates deserve praise on the fine manner in which they have been tackling "the Colony's health problem and in achieving the excellent re- sults attained during the past year.
THE DIRECTOR of Medical
CRITICISMS have been
levelled against the Medical Department on account of the increased expenditures which
on
it calls for and many a tax- payer has complained over the additional burden which
been thrown has
his shoulders. Although one of the most thankless tasks in Hongkong, there is no doubt that the Colony's Medical Department is one of the most efficient in the Far East.
MUCH HAS BEEN DONE but much more remains to be done if the campaign for the health better
among public is to be successful. walk along any of the streets will bear out this statement.
A
No doubt the authorities are fully
aware of this
but
pressure of other duties, con- sidered more important, are probably attracting their at
tention, such for instance, as work on the prevention and spread of epidemics.
HOW MANY PEOPLE have actually visited the markets themselves instead of being satisfied with the purchase of foodstuffs by their servants? How many have not seen the open market spaces in Wan chat and other parts of the Colony, where conditions beggar all description? Meat is not graded here. Coolies and amahs can invariably be seen coughing, clearing their throats, spitting and blowing their noses in front of the very foodstuffs which the public has to eat. But these practices are not the mono- poly of the markets alone for, they take place in almost every nook and corner of Hongkong. On top of that, we see, by the sides of the streets, semi-naked people of the lower order searching the seams of filthy clothes for deas and the heads of their children for lice.
we
EDITORIAL
Miss Grace Cheng. from Shanghai, who plays the lead- ing feminine role in "Debutante Goes to Town,” which will be produced by the Chinese Youths" Medical Rellet Association' at the Queen's Theatre on March Ming 1. (Photo: Sun Ying Studio).
BOMBING OF LOWU
Surprise In Chinese Circles
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1939.
Some Sentiment And Some Dollars
WRITTEN IN LONDON SPECIALLY FOR
THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS" BY
Robin Hyde
WHO DISCUSSES CREDITS FOR CHINA AND HOW THE GESTURE CAN BE IMPLEMENTED
TN MY CHILDHOOD there was a
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Regarding charitable assistance of munitions. But at home, with: brief fashion, for a kind of sour to Chinese funds, all is much too the loss of her cities and enormous. milk called yoghourt, or Bulgarian quiet on the western front. To dislocation of her community life, bud. It was for use of people who some extent, this is understandable above all' with her terrible need thought that drinking queer, sour- and inevitable. But there are for something spproaching an smelling substances profited their signs that Chinese propaganda, Inequality of military equipment, the queer insides. To start, cne ob- London anyhow, needs reorganis people as a whole suffered poverty tained a bud, bottled, and shuting on a wider and bolder Basis- beyond description.
the thing away in some cool, dark, | always supposing the game to be furtive place; where it went on worth the candle. The Far East producing more and more buds.is no longer so far, that
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Yoghourt reminds me of Europe's post-Munich crises, which are bud- ding away. Just like that. The summing up of the big crials was
One
the milk being drained off each Jewish window-pane smashed in THE FAILURE OF HER AT- day. Every time ones opened the Berlin or Vienna should now have TEMPT to obtain a British. cupboard door, the atmosphere ten times the emotional appeal of loan last July was due to many amelt mysteriously worse.
hundreds of Chinese houses des- things; chiefly, of course, the poli- inside them. The recent Bowl of and England were troyed with their harmless people tical fear of Japan. But America not working Rice dinner brought in a few hun-together, American Idealism was dred pounds. An elaborate sale of pouring in one stream towards work for a Chinese fund meant China, while American munitions that of a Scottish doctor.” He said: less than £50. Newspapers, except and all poured in another stream "The real September crisis was the minority who are automatical- towards Japan. The recipients are this. All Europe was at the mercyly sympathetic with anything op in the best position to judge the of one individual, who is psycholoposed to the Fascist bloc, are worse respective merits of these con gically afflicted."
concrete tributions. Trouble in Europe
than no help. As
At the moment we are all feel-example, one London dally ran a made the Far East the Farthest ing a little better; meanwhile, I quite irrelevant banner heading East. China had now no business' sho swim round this very large London over its critique of a Chinese play. man's collateral-nothing whirlpool like a very small, dis-The critic apparently enjoyed the could offer as, security against ex- tracted minnow, trying to absorb play, which was for a Chinese war tension of her credits. She had the significance of things, especial- fund. But the banner heading cities, but no guarantee that they ly things having any bearing on proclaimed, "Alas, poor China!" would not become ash-heaps fas China's struggle of mass resistance Something is rotten in the state they did); vast interior provinces, against mass aggression.
of such gift horses' teeth. The but no established mineral rights Chinese conflict, China's stubborn-there, and no guarantee" against ly borne resistance, is by now too deepening occupation, Hongkong. big to be treated as anyone's on the peak of its boom industrial year every industry prospering.. FIRST THIS TRIVIALITY. Pablle fashion.
mony new factories starting.- interest in China, (though so
Out of it all. concrete, and quite Malayan robber feeding an output much disturbed and torn apart by as much political as financial in of everything from tennis shoes the nearer European crises) is far inspiration, comes the loan for and playballs to four different deeper and wider than is indicat China, America's gesture followed varieties of gasmasks might have ed by the newspapers, which could by England's. Comments "Weekly been considered collateral of a not very well be, worse. With some Time and Tide": "Let us be thank- sort. Its yearly industrial report English people, there
is one ful, however, for
a beginning." Was read out in August-the damaging defect, in understanding Comment continues: "It is rea month after the Chinese loan was -the idea that Japan is a sort of pectable now to support China" refused. It will be interesting to smiling peacemaker in a Chinese Our poor old respectability How consider next year's report.
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(From 'Our Own Correspondent)
CHUNGSHAN, Feb. 22—High military authorities are watch- ing the situation in Shumchun and Lowu with keen interest In connection with the coming. counter-attack on the Japanese
war of political factions.
Queen Victoria would not have -occupied areas in Kwangtung. course, the people who first say been amused!
So the Chinese soldier carried
Military circles are
on in his war areas, as I have surprised these things are by no means such that the Japanese saw fit to bomb | fools as to believe them. They are
seen him, a cheerful fellow, a grest Lowu 13 British territory, which is exactly the same official or semi-
fighter, in a cotton uniform, on rations which beside Japanese known to the Japanese aviators. official people who believe, and oc- The opinion here is that the bomb-casionally are frank enough to THE ORIGINS OF THE PRESENT army rations were starvation fare, MONEY situation are interest and with a heart greatly delight- "Leave Japan alone with ing was deliberate as a means to say, test. British reactions and feelings. North China, and she will playing, and have possibly not beened when by scrambling night published in detal In 1938. Bir sorties he could capture an enemy Frederick Leith-Ross visited China machine-gun or Shumchun has no military im-with it for hours...for very critical,
overcoat... The portance, being cut off from the valuable hours...perhaps
8 consulting specialist
Japanese overcoats, thick and interior following the Japanese century." occupation of Canton
finance. China soon afterwards heavy, brass buttons polished up, But the English themselves state stabilised her currency, with the were regarded with a very genuine that a large majority of English equalisation of exchange.
Vast affection. people are sympathetic towards quantities of Chinese silver were During the seven months I was. China, The question one hears shipped to London-£88,000,000 is in China, the dollar dropped about most frequently and urgently re- the specified amount and on this three or four cents. Not bad for a peated, 18, "How long can China was based a Chinese dollar cut wartime effort, beginning just hold out?" It is a bitter question rency of between two and three after the devastating fall of Nan- for a people still at peace to ask hundred millions of dollar notes. ing. and with the retreat from of a people over-riding terrible It
Hauchowfu scrawled ACTORS calendar of victory and defeat.
In an interview m an undis closed base, General Teng Lung kwang stated that the Jap anese have failed to force through a passage along the West River
for
a
as
in
was this transaction which
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or the North River owing to the stubborn resistance of the Chinese forces and the insufficient strength of the enemy despite their sup handicaps lack of munitions, lack kept the dollar pace in wartime port of guns and warplanes. He of food, lack of medical relief. But China so even with consequent But afterwards, inevitably, came said that the Japanese were behind it there is always the protection of foreign as well as further drops, most anxious to push through the anxiety for an optimistic answer. Chinese interests. This applied Little North River to Szebut, but some are anxious arter China for even to the hard-up visitor or in this attempt they also failed.,
China's own sake, or for a specific traveller in China, to whom $100, At the moment, the Japanese cause or culture they and deeply | Mex, might look like money. are consolidating their position planted in, China. Some think the
China, however, still offered. In her dollar "real" money. Japan. still offered in her North China note issue authentic paper--pretty
around Canton to forestall any silence in which Hongkong's post- Chinese dollars Auttering in and appealing paper. Chinese counter-attack. The weak- tion has been received speak more thousands
of
money - cages
ness of the enemy is due to the loudly than words. Others range throughout her cities; Chinese
abacus, big transfer of some of the garrison
25th February, to 9th March, or No. 47 Cumberland Road, Kow.attached to pieces of straw and Taipingchang north of Can-(NE FACT EMERGES. There is pression that a Chinese dollar was ference
ol
1939, both days inclusive, daring which period "no Transfer Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON “& CO., LTD., Agents.
Hong Kong, 16th Feb., 1939.
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who eat them...
floor. Shamshulpo, and Miss Chily garbage tins and baskets in
tral, first floor. '*.*
Hankow Hallway, suffered many ton and east of the Canton-
casualties during their northward advance last week. but were driven back by the forces under
General Yu Hon-mou
in
money.
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extension, the ideal situation" re- sarding China, because no situa- tion regarding China can be ideal Soviet Russia. But compared with
a little further, into the baffling
beans, mahogany in Kwangtung to other places, mesh of contradictory statements clicking off correct change in dol- OVERNIGHT, A WIRE OF TEN- SION has snapped. The Anglo- lars and cents, under smooth and and according to an intelligence surrounding the Singapore base, THEN, from the markets,
report the strength at present is
swift Chinese Angers; sometimes. American loan might be compara- there
But what see servants carrying | under 60,000 ofcers and ment
was Inter-provincial ex- tively Httle in Itself. The Japanese units at shenkong pieces of fish, meat or pork
change, but wherever you went in matters is that for the first time China, nobody ever had the im- since the Nine-Power Treaty con- in Washington, 1922, loon Tong, and Miss Wu Ling-e are entirely exposed to the
taking one of two forms the geh- Cart Crow relates how dollar notes that s sate Pacific implied a sound string. Their little purchases
widespread concern for China, anything but a Chinese dollar. (when it was agreed in principle of No. 31 Shelley Street;
Mr. Hsu Liang-bih, cashier of sun and to files, thus endan
erally sympathetic, but cautious soiled and tattered beyond re, and stable China) America and the Fu Hua Trading Co., residing gering the health of those
movements as the Lord Mayor's ten per cent discount. Even in simultaneous gesture in Chinese and conservative feeling of such cognition could be negotiated at a England have made an almost at No. 7 Sharp Street East, second
Fund, the harder, more definite the interior provinces, Chinese interests, floor, and Miss Wong Kin-shuun, of
THE HEALTH SERVICES Owing to the lack of men, the concern of the politically bold, wha No, 188 Prince Edward' Road, seconą
money, "WES consistently "real" This is not, at its most hopeful might find a little time to look enemy are also inactive in the see as their ideal a return to the: f1oor:
France USSR England a380- Mr. Leung Lai-sang, clerk of into these matters, as well as East River regions. The garrison
Tsengshing. Tungkun and ciation, with America, invited and Messra, Carlowitz and Co., residing into the question of street
It is notable that Japan also at No. 05 Laichikok Road, frst washing, the emptying of Bheklung is just large enough to hailed as a working partner to the prefaced her war by remitting which has lost Franes and ignored
maintain their position, and no farthest limit of her willingness. large reserves abroad. But the de Ng, of No. 204 Queen's Road Cen- the public streets in broad push is expected from those on the European side, the sine corative note Issue with which she the situation of a few months ago;
qua non is the defeat of Mr. is still trying to flood North China Chamberlain. That such a re- does not aspire to be anything but it is hopeful on this side only arrangement could, and would paper. This issue, by the way affered so greatly, only there
Only, in the interim, China has
Mr. W. O, Warnes, a passenger on profit China in politics and with does not bear the impression mains the echo, of the question, burning of rubbish, as well as board the sa. Colville, has reported munitions is truism. Its possibility the Mikado's countenance, or of a sewage plan. The question th the police the loss of a gom does not lie only with the slender anything peculiarly Japanese It "How long can China bold out?" SHANGHAI, Feb. 22 (Reuter) of the Wanchal canal might watch, valued at $100, between chances of an effective Parlia shows a nice, kind, venerable old If only no man, woman or chind The Japanese naval authorities also be gone into. If the Queen's Road and Commut Road, mentary combination against Mr. Chinese gentleman with a very need be hurt or seriously alarmed have made representations to the DM.8. or any member of his Central,
Chamberlain. In the momentary long beard-Japan's Santa Claus in the process, I would close by absence of Mr. Eden, we can at in China. But even the simplest saying "I hope before this reaches British and Norwegian Consuls staff would take the trouble
least thank Heaven, kneeling, for Chinese village children know China, Hitler's Dead End Kids will shares upon which $5.00 Per rice aboard British and Norwegian Happy Valley some evening, before the
against the alleged carriage of to take a tram-ride down to
Hitler and Mussolini even for what Japan's Banta Claus drops have gone out and smashed a few ships from Japanque occupied tone would be overcome with hostilities, the Chinese was watching Dr. Goebbel's chest China's oversens sil Sino-Japanese their satellites All Europe to-day through Chinese roots.
| more" = windows,"", Nazi Germany⠀⠀ and will be payable on or before non-occupied territory, and re-
appears to be England's and other China's overseas silver reserves nations' most successful interpre served the right to take appro- the strench coming from the making considerable headway with the tenderness of a movie
filthy water,
concentrating on a were her mainstay in general dip-ter in the United States. And priate measures.
in fighting for better health producer
lomatic purposes and the purchase needed that that the transfer of rice and other appear to be small but, in provements can be brought
THESE MATTERS would among the public. If im couple of million dollar lega specified goods from occupled to view of what the publle is about in Shanghai and in non-occupied territory had been asked to pay in taxes and China, there is no reason why
CALL
CHINA UNDERWRITERS,
LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that
a Call of $1.00 per share has been
made upon all members holding
share only has been already pald,
the 15th March 1939 to the Bankers of the Company, Heng Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, at Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong.
Dated 1st December, 1938.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
JAPANESE NAVAL PROTEST
A Japanese spokesman explained
banned by the "reformed govern
ment."
Mr. and Mrs J, Adams My HERBERT R, STURT Strang and Mr. A. J. Osterling ar
Managing Director, rived in the my. Buys, Jesterday
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daylight. They might con- sider the possibility of build- ing an incinerator for the
sectors.
otherwise, the tax-payer is the same cannot be done in entitled to expect something Hongkong. Possibly the in- better from the Health Ser- troduction of some parts of vices. In Shanghaf, these Generalissimo Chiang Kal matters are not overlooked shek's New Life Movement and during the few years might help.
COUNT GRANDI The Italian Ambassador, Count Grandi, left London for Rome for the third time within three weeks for consultation with the Itail Government, according to Reuter,
LORD BRABOURNE
Brabourne, Governor of Ben who underwent and abd operation a few days?
Somas anxiety is felt for
Reuter
to